RE: Computer died :(
BY: All

Hey

My windows computer died today (Hard Drive). Lucky I'm in the process of building a new one. In the meantime I am using a linux one.

It just means I can't update windows builds for some things for the time being.

Andrew


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On 25 Oct 2020 at 02:53p, Apam pondered and said...

My windows computer died today (Hard Drive). Lucky I'm in the process of building a new one. In the meantime I am using a linux one.

It just means I can't update windows builds for some things for the time being.

I'd better hurry up and get off Windows :)

Sorry to hear the box is la-gone-da...

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My windows computer died today (Hard Drive). Lucky I'm in the process of building a new one. In the meantime I am using a linux one.

I hate when this happens. Even when there are backups, the whole process of restoring/building into a new pc/hard drive is very frustrating. And the thing is, that this will happen, when you need your pc to do something serious or have a lot of work to finish :(

Hope you have backed up all your work/projects and nothing is missing. :)

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RE: Re: Computer died :(
BY: xqtr(21:1/111)

Hope you have backed up all your work/projects and nothing is missing.
:)

Yep thanks, most of my stuff is on gitlab, and that which isn't i had backed up
yesterday in preperation for building my new computer. So fortunatly, nothing I
know of is lost :)

Andrew


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BY: Apam(21:1/182)

My windows computer died today (Hard Drive). Lucky I'm in the process of

building a new one. In the meantime I am using a linux one.

Glad you have a backup. Was it a HD or SSD? I have a bunch of HDDs getting up
there in Age, but the SMART monitoring on them is all showing healthy.

-rushfan


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On 25 Oct 2020, 03:29p, Rushfan said the following...

Glad you have a backup. Was it a HD or SSD? I have a bunch of HDDs getting upthere in Age, but the SMART monitoring on them is all showing healthy.

I'm not sure how much I trust the SMART monitoring. I had a brand new HDD that I put into the system, and it said it was in 'pre-fail', and some categories said 'old-age', with a total runtime of less than 10 minutes...

Of course they still say that, and have been running smoothly for about a year now.


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Re: Re: Computer died :(
By: Black Panther to Rushfan on Sun Oct 25 2020 01:05 pm

On 25 Oct 2020, 03:29p, Rushfan said the following...

Glad you have a backup. Was it a HD or SSD? I have a bunch of HDDs getting upthere in Age, but the SMART monitoring on them is all showing healthy.

I'm not sure how much I trust the SMART monitoring. I had a brand new HDD th I put into the system, and it said it was in 'pre-fail', and some categories said 'old-age', with a total runtime of less than 10 minutes...

Of course they still say that, and have been running smoothly for about a ye now.

SMART is said to have an accuracy of 60%. This is, it has a 60% of giving you a meaningful waring on time to switch a failing drive or so.

So yes, it is not super effective.

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My windows computer died today (Hard Drive). Lucky I'm in the process of

Need a spare? I have a box full of them here, nothing massive, but get you a boot device and enough space to install windoze and some goodies on.

Spec


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SMART is said to have an accuracy of 60%. This is, it has a 60% of
giving you a
meaningful waring on time to switch a failing drive or so.

So yes, it is not super effective.

Yipes, that's not that great at all.

-r



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RE: Re: Computer died :(
BY: Spectre(21:3/101)

Need a spare? I have a box full of them here, nothing massive, but get
you
a boot device and enough space to install windoze and some goodies on.

All good :) Thanks for the offer though!

Andrew


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Glad you have a backup. Was it a HD or SSD? I have a bunch of HDDs getting up there in Age, but the SMART monitoring on them is all showing healthy.

Hard Drive, it came with the computer which was second hand, so no idea how
old it actually is. It was taking a good 5 minutes (at least) to boot up for
a while, then I got a SMART warning of impending failure.

Andrew

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SMART is said to have an accuracy of 60%. This is, it has a 60% of

So yes, it is not super effective.

Yipes, that's not that great at all.

Add to that, the SMART codes are not standard either. Apparently different manufacturers using the same code locations or names for different purposes. Not sure how that all works...

Spec


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BY: Spectre(21:3/101)

manufacturers using the same code locations or names for different
purposes.
Not sure how that all works...

Sounds like "poorly" is how that all works.

I'm guessing here: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-smart-stats-indicate-hard-drive-failures/ is where the 60% number comes from. Wow.
Fun stuff.



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